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He’s the Heartbreak Kid; the Show Stopper. For more than two decades, Shawn Michaels has had amazing matches inside the ring and controversial moments outside it. Now, for the first time on DVD, fans can see the whole story. From the Rockers to D-Generation X with Triple H, the Clique to the "Montreal Screwjob," every ounce of Michael’s heartbreak and triumph is here!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
 Great Documentary, Wonderful Selection of Matches, 2008-09-28
I have been a wrestling fan since 1996 and have watched all kinds of wrestling. I have a wrestling DVD/VHS collection spanning over 50 all together. This is the most complete and accurate review of this DVD you will find. I hope you find this review helpful; remember to vote helpful or not helpful. (Note-Each DVD I review has a "Match of the DVD" award somewhere in it.)
The Shawn Michaels Story- Heartbreak & Triumph
Heartbreak & Triumph is an incredible story of one of the best wrestlers in the world. Shawn Michaels is often compared to masters of the ring like Ric Flair, Bret Hart, and Triple H. However, Shawn is in a league of his own. The Heart Break Kid is a highflyer, a technician, and a brawler. He can take any style and make it his own. Very few wrestlers can say they can do that. Even fewer superstars excel when they do this. Shawn Michaels is loved by the common fan and the hardcore internet fan. Shawn Michaels is on of the best wrestlers in the world and this is a great set for him.
Heartbreak & Triumph is a glorious three-disk set. The first disk contains a documentary about Shawn's life. The other two disks are filled with great matches from his career. The documentary is one of the better ones I have seen. The story begins with Shawn being born. His mother wanted a girl instead of him, but his mother learned to love him. Shawn's love of wrestling began when he was twelve years old. He and his friend actually wrestled for a talent show. They move into his early career in AWA, and his part in the popular Rockers tag team. They then move into his WWE career and his egotistical problems. They talk about Shawn's drug and injury problems. They go through his entire career until Wrestlemania 23. The story is very good and filled with emotion. The story itself probably earns this set five stars.
There is also a good amount of extras on the first disk. Promos, deleted scenes, and stories are all here. The deleted scenes include his feud with Kurt Angle, which was left out due to Angle leaving for TNA. The extras are all great, except a music video I did not like much. All the matches are great and perfect choices.
-Disk 2-
Shawn Michaels VS Bill Jack Haynes (WCCW, 1/11/85)
This is just a quick squash match. Michaels looks good, but quickly loses.
RATING- No Rating
AWA Tag Team Championships (AWA, 2/10/87)
Midnight Rockers VS Buddy Rose & Doug Somers(c)
This is not the bloody battle described in the documentary. However, this is the first Tag Title win for the Midnight Rockers. The match is slow, but entertaining. The Rockers do not use much of their fast-paced wrestling in this match. Rose and Somers dominate most of the match. The match is slow, but has its moments.
RATING- 7.5/10
AWA Tag Team Championship (AWA 6/12/87)
Midnight Rockers(c) VS Super Ninja & Ninja Go
Let me say that the two Ninjas are ridiculous. They only do a ninja stance every now and then; nothing else is ninja about them. Regardless, this match starts fast paced with the Rockers getting the advantage. The Ninjas gain control later in the match and does not relinquish it for a long time. This match is much better than the previous match is.
RATING- 8.5/10
The Rockers VS The Brainbusters (Madison Square Garden, 1/23/89)
This match is wonderful. The Brainbusters consist of Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard. There is some fast-paced action, comedic action, and good tag team wrestling. This is my favorite tag team match on the set.
RATING- 9.5/10
2 out of 3 Falls Match
WWF Tag Team Championship (October 1990)
The Rockers VS The Hart Foundation(c)
This match was erased from history due to one of the top ropes breaking. I will say that this match feels like a big mess. Both teams hesitate a lot and moves do not seem to flow right. The top rope is fixed for the third fall, but the match is not working correctly yet. In addition, there is not commentary for this match. Still, it is not all terrible. The match just lacked fluidity.
RATING- 7.5/10
The Rockers VS Orient Express (Royal Rumble 1991)
This is another good tag team match. Orient Express controls most of the match, but The Rockers get their offensive moments. Both these team put on a good showing.
RATING- 8/10
Intercontinental Championship (Saturday Night's Main Event, 11/8/92)
Shawn Michaels VS British Bulldog(c)
British Bulldog had just beaten Bret Hart in their historic match at Summerslam 1992. This match is a fantastic showing. Bulldog uses his power to control the match. There is a good technical showdown at one point. I loved the ending, but I do not think the crowd understood what happened.
RATING- 9/10
Royal Rumble Match (Royal Rumble 1995)
If you do not already know how this one ends, you have never watched wrestling. While the ending is an epic moment, the Rumble itself is not epic. In fact, the 1995 edition of the Rumble is horrible. There are only five true stars in the match; two of them are eliminated in a matter of seconds. The other three dominate the entire match. Those three are Michaels, Bulldog, and Luger. Everyone else in the Rumble is just a pawn for them to throw out. In addition, the intervals between entrants were only thirty-seconds. This means people were constantly coming in nothing truly interesting ever happens. The final two is epic and bring this match up slightly.
RATING- 6/10
-Disk 3-
Intercontinental Championship (In Your House, 7/23/95)
Shawn Michaels VS Jeff Jarrett(c) w/ The Roadie
Many are claiming that this match is a "lost classic." This match has been lost in time, but it is not a classic. The match is good, but by no means a classic. Shawn out wrestles Jarrett until Shawn takes a sick spill until the outside. Jarrett then controls the match. Roadie interferes from time to time. Roadie would go on to be known as B.G. James later in his career.
RATING- 8/10
WWF Championship (King of the Ring 1996)
Shawn Michaels(c) VS British Bulldog
Mr. Perfect is an outside referee for this match. Mr. Perfect has been aligned with Bulldog and Owen Hart lately, so the match is bias. Michaels tries to take away the upper power of Bulldog by working on his arm. The match is back and forth. This is even better than there other match on this set. The problem is the weird ending.
RATING- 9.5/10
World Heavyweight Championship (Raw, 12/29/03)
Shawn Michaels VS Triple H(c) w/Ric Flair
This match took place in Shawn's hometown. The crowd is hot, and this match is electric. Triple H and Michaels go back and forth the entire match. Shawn takes a sick dive to the outside onto Flair and Triple H. Shawn even locks on the Figure-4 onto Triple H. The match has an exciting closing minutes. The ending is odd, but I loved it.
RATING- 9/10
The Rockers VS La Resistance (Raw, 3/14/05)
This is a one night only return on The Rockers. Shawn and Marty still look great together. The match is short, but it is nice to see them together again.
RATING- 7/10
Shawn Michaels VS Kurt Angle (Vengeance 2005) (Match of the DVD)
After WrestleMania 21, no one thought this match would take place again. Angle was drafted to Raw though and the match was on. Angle focuses on the neck of Michaels for most of the match. There are some sick spots including a German Suplex onto the announce table and a powerbomb into the turnbuckle. This match is epic. You will love every second of it.
RATING- 10/10
Shawn Michaels VS John Cena (Raw, 4/23/07)
Use the bathroom, get something to drink, and get ready to stay glued to your seat for nearly an hour. This is the rematch from WrestleMania 23 that lasted an hour. The match goes back and forth. Cena just cannot get Shawn to stay down. The match is slow, but that works in this match. The ending is great. Unfortunately, this match is not for the WWE Championship.
RATING- 9/10
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 A very good documentary, and a good collection of some low profile matches, 2008-09-20
Overall it's a good DVD set. The documentary is excellent, so are the extras. As far as the matches go, what I like is that they haven't included matches previously released in 'From The Vault' DVD set. Unlike the earlier set, this set contains some of Shawn's excellent but low profile matches. This DVD set combiner with From The Vault DVD set makes a good Shawn Michaels collection. My only complaint is that neither of these two DVD sets contain the HBK vs Kurt Angle match that took place at Wrestlemania 21.
I wish the WWE releases another 3 disk DVD set on Shawn Michaels some years from now. That would make a complete collection of HBK's career along with the previous two DVD sets.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 GOT THIS FOR MY DAUGTHER WHO IS A BIG FAN.., 2008-09-16
She just loves wrestling and especially this wrestler. So she enjoyed this dvd very much.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
It's better than his book at least, 2008-08-15
Well, I just watched the documentary part of Shawn's new DVD and it is really good stuff. Nowhere near as much obscure WWF footage as I'd have liked, but still some good action and AWA footage. Plenty of attention to Shawn's great return from injury, but it was hard listening to Shawn talking about going through depression since he thought about suicide and also, that he wasn't competent to be able to take care of his family since he couldn't wrestle anymore which caused him to do drugs and booze.
And unfortunately, they focused A LOT on the screwjob and Triple H had a lot of needless crap to say, even Ted Dibiase seemed to harp on Bret being 'bitter' still and how Shawn wants to patch things up (although I'm sure WWE just asked Ted to say that for them just to make Shawn look good). They showed clips of Bret smashing stuff up whilst talking about how much grudge he has, fair or what. Hunter also said how Bret was going to walk out the next night, when not under contract, which is bullsh** because he still had another 30 days left on his contract and would have dropped it anytime if Vince had let him. Hunter is just being a complete revisionist nitwit and Shawn tells a different story with each interview he does regarding Montreal. (In the Heartbreak and Triumph book, Shawn says he was the mastermind behind the whole thing, on the DVD he says it was Vince's idea and he was doing what he was told.) Personally, I think the DVD would've been much better without spending so much time on it. It's so disappointing that WWE had taken great strides in patching things up with Bret over the years only for this crap to be released and shown and take it right back to square one. *Sigh*
So, aside from the Montreal crap (it never gets old and WWE will never let it die), HBK's DVD is amazing and easily the best Superstar DVD since Flair and Hart. There's a few more matches I would've preferred to have on there like Vs. Bret Hart from Survivor Series 92, Vs. Chris Jericho at WM XIX, or Vs. Shelton Benjamin on RAW in mid-2005, but I'm really grateful WWE went all-out on releasing rare / classic matches instead of just rehashing stuff on From The Vault.
This DVD set is absolutely worth getting for any HBK fan. Hell, even any wrestling fan out there.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
An objective and fair documentary of Shawn's career coupled with fine matches. One of the WWE's best dvds., 2008-06-09
THE SHORT: A load of great matches plus a documentary that is surprisingly straightforward and fairly objective. Don't be afraid to get this if you already own "From the Vault", both combine to make a great Shawn Michaels retrospective without overlapping matches.
THE LONG: Let's get this out of the way immediately- Shawn is one of the best performers in the history of the business. He is also one of the most cocky and manipulative. That being said, I was very satisfied with the way this dvd looked at his career. This is one of the WWE's most straightforward and genuine dvds.
In the documentary, Shawn briefly discusses growing up and then swiftly moves to his early days in the AWA and his partnership with Marty Jannetty, who shows up to add some welcome testimony as well. We then move on to Shawn's solo career, his early days as the Heartbreak Kid, the forming of backstage power team "The Clique", and his eventual exit and return of the company. Of course all the expected milestones, friendships and enemies are covered. Shawn comes across as pretty candid, and if I may say more turned down and believable than usual, as he covers sensitive subjects such as Montreal, drug abuse, and his religious interests.
Unlike Bret Hart's documentary, which featured Bret speaking almost exclusively (to at times the dvd's detriment), an air of authenticity is lent to this release as people as high up in the company ranks as Pat Patterson, Triple H, and Vince Mcmahon both celebrate Shawn as expected, but also freely admit to having several problems with him as well. Triple H describes being fed up with Shawn's drug abuse and Vince and Pat complain more than once about his attitude and stubbornness, and it was refreshing to see them being blunt about it and not beating around the bush in typical shrugging "But it's HBK!" fashion.
For his part, I don't think Shawn completely redeems past behavior and alleged incidences of him playing politics and refusing to job to other wrestlers, but maybe they caught him on a good day- I do believe that, despite Shawn still being Shawn, he comes off here as more personable and self-aware than I've ever seen him. He cracks a couple jokes and has moments where the cynic doubts his honesty, of course. But for the most part he seems relaxed enough to leave the HBK persona behind and be real, and not just WWE's version of "real". Let's put it this way- this is the least "show-bizzy" I've ever seen Shawn, and it was a compelling documentary.
As for the matches, it's Shawn Michaels so of course you're getting your money's worth as far as wrestling is concerned. A favorite of mine is the legendary untelevised match of the Rockers vs. The Hart Foundation, where had it not been for the top rope breaking the Rockers would have been officially declared tag champs. Shawn complains about the quality of this match although the performances are solid, and I can't help but be thoroughly amused when Jim Neidhart is startled cold in the middle of the ring, eyeballing the broken rope, and loudly declaring "GOD **** IT!!! SON OF A B****!!!!!" Before resuming the match.
Is there more I would have asked for? Aside from personal favorite matches, honestly not much. I still think Shawn used to be a complete jerk behind the scenes and nothing will make me totally accept that. But I was very satisfied to see a more mature Shawn covering this and many other subjects, and also happy to see people chime in to give their own thougtful comments about things such as Montreal and Shawn's behavior. An informative and engaging documentary couple with some fantastic wrestling. What more could you want?
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